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Letters Patent No. 65,343, dated Jime 4, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN BASIN-PLUGS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CNCERN:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. GARR, of the city and State of New York,have invented, made, and applied to use a certain new and usefulImprovement in Plugs for Stationary Basins, Bath-Tubs, Ste.; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawing,making part of this specification, wherein- Figure 1 is' a verticalsection ofthe waste-water way and plug at the bottom part ofa stationarybasin; and

Figure 2 is an inverted plafn of the said plug.

Similar letters denote the same parts.

The plugs for closing the water-ways of stationary basins and bath-tubshave usually been made of metal ground into place; these are frequentlylost, and difficulty is experienced in replacing them, because they haveto be ground into place by hand while the bath-tub or basin is in itsusual fixed' position. Besides this, these rigid ormetal plugsfrequently become wedged into place, and the chain breaks in endeavoringto pull them out, and sometimes the plugs leak from a slight. bruise, orfrom any slight substance getting between the plug and its seat. vSolidplugs of elastic material, such as cork and India rubber, have also beenemployed, but they are liable to wedge into the waste-water way orotherwise become injured. Y

The nature of my said invention consists in a plug for a waste-water.way formed with guides to keep it in an upright position, and with anelastic disk that is turned up at its edges or cupped. by being pressedinto the waste-water way. By this construction the grinding of the.water-way to form a seat for the plug is pref vented. The plug cannotbecome wedged into the water-way, and can easily be removed; hence, thechain is not so liable to be broken. Under all circumstances, however,the plug will be Water-tight, even when pressed but p a little way intothe waste-water pipe.

In the drawing a represents a portion of the lower part of a stationarybasin; b the waste-water way formed of a flanged pipe, the flange 1being within the basin, and a screw-nut, 2, below the basin, clampingthe parts to place; 8 is a bridge across the water-way to prevent thepipe becoming obstructed by large-substances drawing into it as usual.My improved plug is formed of a disk, c, with vertical guides below it,as seen at4-l, tokeep the plug from turning sidewisein the water-way;but these guides are too small to entirely ll the water-way, hence theplug can never become wedged into place. 02 is the upper disk clampingthe elastic washer e between itself and the disk c, andf is the ring, towhich a chain is to be attached.

When the plug is pressed into the waste-water way the edges of theelastic disk are turned up, and form a cup-shape that is entirelywater-tight.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The plug for waste-water ways provided with an elastic disk, and guidedin the manner as and for the purposes set forth. l

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature this first day ofMarch, A. D. '1867.

WILLIAM S. GARR.

Witnesses:

OHAs. H. SMITH, Guo. T. PINCKNEY.

